Recently, Keith Manoy, Senior Transportation Planner with the city and the one slated with implementing the plan, now works for the Public Works department. This may seem trivial, but there has been some reorganizing within the city staff to help get things moving quicker. Also staff positions like, Jared White, who helps oversee the city trail network and Max Kalhammer, the city’s only bicycle coordinator, have also been reorganized.

So, on February 6, 2013 February 20, 2013, the city will get a briefing at the council meeting of the current and future progress. Be on the lookout for a group ride to the event, as well as other ways you can support the Dallas Bike Plan in 2013!

‘Round this time last Monday , Angela Hunt told her colleagues on the council, as well as assistant city managers and transpo planners and city attorneys, that the way Dallas is executing its new bike plan is nothing short of folly. Said Hunt, we never, ever should have put those shared lanes downtown. Said Hunt, they’re merely “a nod to show we’re a bike-friendly city,” and in the end they’re going to create “a perfect storm for drivers to get pissed off at cyclists.” Hunt, a cyclist, figures in a couple of years the city will just roll its streets and cover up those markers and proclaim the bike plan dead on arrival.